Archive for November, 2008
The Golden Age of Broadway
By Daniel Felsenfeld
Alright, going back. The so-called “Golden Age” of Broadway is gorgeously summarized by the third disc of Broadway: The American Musical. This collection of great great songs is a snapshot of the era where Broadway led the popular culture rather than the subsequent vice-versa. It opens with a legendary performance: [...]
Broadway’s Most Complicated Era
By Daniel Felsenfeld
Disc Four of the Broadway: The American Musical is the most confusing, simply because of its range. This was the 1960s and 70s, and things really began to change. For one thing, the physical place of Broadway in those days, Times Square, was a mess, a horror show of [...]
Watch Yo-Yo Ma interview on CNN!
Watch Yo-Yo Ma talk about “Songs of Joy and Peace” on CNN!
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Yo-Yo Ma: Songs of Joy and Peace
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Broadway: The American Musical
By Daniel Felsenfeld
It seems as the Broadway Musical wanes to what many people would consider a close (insofar as it is a part of the cultural dialogue—how many times has Ben Brantley written in the Times of his longing to return to the era where Broadway led pop rather than today’s vice-versa?) retrospective adds to [...]
Mazurkas, and Final Thoughts on Rubinstein’s Original Jacket Collection
By Daniel Felsenfeld
Like any artist, Chopin had many sides—the accomplished fantasist of the nocturnes, the grandstander of the concertos, the wheezing pessimist (and long-range composer) of the Preludes, the rangy classicist of the sonatas, the droll wit of the impromptus and baccaroles, the macho and maudlin technician of the etudes and fantasies, and the chamber [...]
Facing The Night
By Daniel Felsenfeld
I cannot agree more with Alan Rich, who, in his liner notes to Rubinstein’s rcording of Chopin’s Nocturnes (dutifully and tantalizingly reprinted as part of one of these Original Jacket Collections I’ve been so in love with), calls this sequence of remarkable music “…strange and wonderful music.” As a chronic insomniac myself, I [...]
Watch Yo-Yo Ma on Colbert Report!
Watch Yo-Yo Ma’s interview and performance on Colbert Report that aired on October 27th!
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Yo-Yo Ma: Songs of Joy and Peace
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Chopin’s Preludes, from Arthur Rubinstein Original Jacket Collection
By Daniel Felsenfeld
The jacket notes for Arthur Rubinstein’s recording of the Chopin Preludes commence “Although the collected works of Frederic Chopin do not bulk large in physical size, it is doubtful if any other composer left behind him music of such consistently high standards.” In other words, it is indeed quality not quantity that [...]